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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

810 points · 862 comments · colesantiago

mlmonkey · 1785950346 · focus · HN ↗
Google loves to kick senior execs upstairs.
Whatever happened to Prabhakar Raghavan? Got kicked upstairs and we barely hear from him nowadays.
It's only a matter of time before Demis leaves and joins Anthropic or OpenAI.
1. [deleted] · 1785950751 · focus · HN ↗
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2. brcmthrowaway · 1785951631 · focus · HN ↗
  He was a protected entity (tambram)
3. returnInfinity · 1785951967 · focus · HN ↗
  As what? CEO? Demis will not take up the MTS role.
  1. tibbar · 1785954138 · focus · HN ↗
    The labs are all very interested in bio right now. Demis is working on Isomorphic rn (Google's version of that) but I could imagine a lab tempting him away to work on their equivalent if it had stronger momentum
4. WarmWash · 1785954190 · focus · HN ↗
  He is probably itching to get to Anthropic. After all he is one of the early investors too.
5. ur-whale · 1786022080 · focus · HN ↗
  > Google loves to kick senior execs upstairs.
  The Japanese corporate culture has a name for this: Madogiwa-Zoku (窓際族) or “The tribe by the window”.
  <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenstergucker_(Japan)" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenstergucker_(Japan)

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